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Caitlin Palo

As Program and Events Manager, Caitlin Palo works with faculty to coordinate the material and logistical needs for bringing together scholars from on and off-campus. This includes identifying and reserving appropriate spaces for gatherings—whether for intimate conversation, collaborative working groups, lectures for academic or public audiences, or for other kinds of events; booking flights and hotels for visitors; and arranging meals and receptions.

Caitlin comes to the Simpson Center after nearly a decade in higher education—first as a graduate student and instructor, and then additionally as an administrator, with experience directing cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary writing centers and writing programs. She holds an M.A. in English Literature and Language from the University of Washington, where she is currently a doctoral candidate.

Caitlin’s dissertation examines the use of private letters as source material for published works that imagine new public relationships to history and to each other at pivotal political moments in 18th century Britain and 20th century America. Central authors in her study include Alexander Pope, Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Dodie Bellamy and other writers of the New Narrative School.

Caitlin also trains regularly in Kung Fu and is an avid user of the Seattle Public Library’s cookbook holdings.